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most people will go into these debates, if you like obama, you will think he did a debate job. romney has said that he wants to use the debates as a clarifying moment. he thinks the democrats have waged an inaccurate campaign. he has said he expects obama to tell more untruths on the debate stage but he thinks there is a real opportunity for him. there is congratulations from the romney campaign, what a great debater obama is and in some ways they are mediocre debaters. there have been some mistakes. obama is likeable enough moment with hillary clinton. gwen: think of the debates you have covered, chuck -- >> because i'm old. [laughter] gwen: which once would you say have made a difference in the outcome? >> well, i'm not actually this old -- [laughter] >> clearly when gerald ford said that the poland not under soviet domination that was one of his memorable type of gaffes and the big putdown from lloyd bentsten and dan quayle. they don't have a moment where they say that guy is clearly better than the other guy. they are both well prepared. these are smart people. and not like
most people will go into these debates, if you like obama, you will think he did a debate job. romney has said that he wants to use the debates as a clarifying moment. he thinks the democrats have waged an inaccurate campaign. he has said he expects obama to tell more untruths on the debate stage but he thinks there is a real opportunity for him. there is congratulations from the romney campaign, what a great debater obama is and in some ways they are mediocre debaters. there have been some...
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tavis: since you mentioned the present, the first debate between mr. obama and mr. romney is behind us. the president is on his own. just weeks ago at the democratic convention he had a nice assist from former president bill clinton. bill clinton has weighed in on this issue. again, it is one thing for you and me to talk about. when bill clinton says something, people start to pay attention. he has weighed in on this and said something i want you to unpack. he has argued that the republicans what the electorate in 2012 to look like the 2010 electorate and not like the 2008 electorate. explain what he meant by thtat. >> if you look at the 2008 electorate, it was a the per se electric, a denver electorate. and it signaled a democrat change in the country and what the electorate will look like going forward in 2016 and beyond. that is why i called the coalition of the ascendant. if you look at 2010, it was an electorate that was older and more conservative. that is why republicans did so well in 2010 and not so well in 2008. clinton said this is not rocket science, tha
tavis: since you mentioned the present, the first debate between mr. obama and mr. romney is behind us. the president is on his own. just weeks ago at the democratic convention he had a nice assist from former president bill clinton. bill clinton has weighed in on this issue. again, it is one thing for you and me to talk about. when bill clinton says something, people start to pay attention. he has weighed in on this and said something i want you to unpack. he has argued that the republicans...
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that there was with obama, now of course there won't be because it is a vice presidential debate but i think that ryan is thinking about his future, i think can probably feel okay with the way he performed. >> rose: katty kay, you are coming to us now from washington, your impressions? >> yeah, i agree, i think paul ryan performed well and republicans will be quite happy with him, he was clear, he was coconcise, he too was energetic and we have never seen him perform on such a huge national platform as this one, and he held his own against joe biden, i mean, this debate some polls are giving it divide and some are giving it to ryan which suggests to me it is pretty much of a wash. i wonder how much this helped barack obama. i think that one of the things that people are going to remember about this debate is less what joe biden or paul ryan said than joe bide's constant smiling, shaking his head, oh, my god, looking i thought at some point at something that was just suggesting maybe a little unhinged, i actually thought it came across as slightly condescending and pat tronizing and e
that there was with obama, now of course there won't be because it is a vice presidential debate but i think that ryan is thinking about his future, i think can probably feel okay with the way he performed. >> rose: katty kay, you are coming to us now from washington, your impressions? >> yeah, i agree, i think paul ryan performed well and republicans will be quite happy with him, he was clear, he was coconcise, he too was energetic and we have never seen him perform on such a huge...
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was he too, i think al put it, it was very similar to obama from the first debate, if you will, and i thought, you know, you want to look at this from a battle ground state termsable i thought the most interesting exchange to me that sort of tells you where mitt romney, how mitt romney is doing in the state of hydro was the auto bailout back and forth so the president brings it up and mitt romney decides he has to respond on the auto deal, let me answer a bunch of things and i will pick the auto bailout, a question remember about china. >> rose: right. >> let me take the auto bailout question. well, i tell you that to mesa tell that, a, that what is standing in the way of mitt romney and carrying the state of high owe is this perception on where he was on the auto bailout, i thought his answer was probably more confusing today as it has been before when he tried to explain, well actually president obama started the auto bailout and then, you know,, i wasn't for that, i was for in managed -- and he was all over the map but it was one of these interesting tells to me that says, okay, he
was he too, i think al put it, it was very similar to obama from the first debate, if you will, and i thought, you know, you want to look at this from a battle ground state termsable i thought the most interesting exchange to me that sort of tells you where mitt romney, how mitt romney is doing in the state of hydro was the auto bailout back and forth so the president brings it up and mitt romney decides he has to respond on the auto deal, let me answer a bunch of things and i will pick the...
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they like barack obama because they sense something about him that he's not a part of it. so even that first debate there we thought was a debacle, a lot of us people thought "well, i liked that because he's not playing that game, he's not playing gotcha, he's not saying nasty things." that that helped the balance for him. >> rose: i'll tell you who didn't like it, his campaign staff. >> i asked, -- at the end of the interview i said to him i ran into somebody during the course of the campaign who useded to work for you who is now the mayor of a major american city. >> rose: could it be chicago? (laughs) >> and i said to him "what happened, rahm, in that first debate?" and rahm looked at me and said "he had a hawaii moment." and when i said that the president laughed very loudly and he caught himself back and he told this lovely story there meant meant that when things seemed to be going to hell in a hand basket he and rahm would sit in the oval office and think "what wild we rather be doing?" and obama said "we'd rather that v a t-shirt shop in hawaii selling t-shirts" th
they like barack obama because they sense something about him that he's not a part of it. so even that first debate there we thought was a debacle, a lot of us people thought "well, i liked that because he's not playing that game, he's not playing gotcha, he's not saying nasty things." that that helped the balance for him. >> rose: i'll tell you who didn't like it, his campaign staff. >> i asked, -- at the end of the interview i said to him i ran into somebody during the...
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president obama and governor romney faced off tonight in the first of three debates before election day on november 6th. domestic policy was in focus during the 90-minute showdown at the university of denver. the platform gave govern romney an opportunity to reignite his campaign which has suffered some this summer. they sparred across a range of issues. >> there's a various done of small businesses across the country saying what's the effect of obamacare in your hiring plans. three quarters said it makes us less likely to hire people. i just don't know how the president could come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment and economic crises at the kitchen table, and spend his energy and passion for two years fighting for obamacare instead of fighting for jobs for the american people. >> the irony is that we've seen this model work really well, in massachusetts. because govern romney did a good thing, working with democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model, and as a consequence, people are covered there. it hasn't destroyed job
president obama and governor romney faced off tonight in the first of three debates before election day on november 6th. domestic policy was in focus during the 90-minute showdown at the university of denver. the platform gave govern romney an opportunity to reignite his campaign which has suffered some this summer. they sparred across a range of issues. >> there's a various done of small businesses across the country saying what's the effect of obamacare in your hiring plans. three...
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president obama was ready after the first debate. he called him out, saying you've had this position before and -- gwen: romnesia. but this puzzled me, some thought romney won all the debates. he had the most to 2k3w5eu7b89 >> just by standing there next to the commander in chief you raise your level because you are actually going toe to toe with the commander in chief -- chief on questions of foreign policy. and interesting, during the debate i was getting all these emails from conservative republicans, one of whom said i'm going to go have another bourbon right now particularly after the president said withdraw from afghanistan on this timetable without questioning it or talking about the commanders on the ground and all the rest. so it was -- well, to me all the sort of neo-cons -- gwen: did that bother them? >> yes. but they're not about to say anything right now. kind of holding their fire. >> partisans and foreign policy experts by myself were really expecting the clash of world views. when you get to a debate, you really want
president obama was ready after the first debate. he called him out, saying you've had this position before and -- gwen: romnesia. but this puzzled me, some thought romney won all the debates. he had the most to 2k3w5eu7b89 >> just by standing there next to the commander in chief you raise your level because you are actually going toe to toe with the commander in chief -- chief on questions of foreign policy. and interesting, during the debate i was getting all these emails from...
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that was helping president obama until the denver debate. now this race is tight and very much in flux. gwen: let's talk about the trend lines. the president can still claim 31 months of unsbrurmented job growth but mitt romney just made that point about how if different things were true this would be 11%. does he have a point? >> well, you can take statistics and play with them all you want. yes, if people weren't leaving, if people weren't dropping out of the job search process then there would be more people in it. ok. but what's important is the number. and the number is good for obama in the psychological way and also if you look historically. what we've just been through in the past year is one of the -- the changes are tiny, but one of the longest declines in the unemployment rate since 1984, so that's a very good trend for the president and public opinion polls have been sending these mixed signals. the most recent "wall street journal" poll had the wrong track number sky high, 60%. but of those who felt like the economy was improvin
that was helping president obama until the denver debate. now this race is tight and very much in flux. gwen: let's talk about the trend lines. the president can still claim 31 months of unsbrurmented job growth but mitt romney just made that point about how if different things were true this would be 11%. does he have a point? >> well, you can take statistics and play with them all you want. yes, if people weren't leaving, if people weren't dropping out of the job search process then...
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and president obama needed good news. and remember the stimulus promise to keep unemployment below 8%, stimulus worked. okay. but i mean politically and psychologically the difference between 8.1 and 7.8 is significant. but i agree with david. i think to a greet degree, judy, the economy is already baked into people's political equation. a number, an insignificant number probably isn't going to change the political equation. >> what does it do though, david, to the romney sort of central argument at one point, of his campaign which was the president has failed on the economy. >> yeah, i don't really think it changed that. i mean we're gaining 114,000 jobs a year,-- i mean a month. you know, this time in many recoveries we're gaining 200,000300,000, times even 400,000. so if we are at a healthy recovery, then you know, then it would hurt his argument but we're not a haley economy. and it's still basically true, though only by a slimmer margin that 2012 has been worse than 2011. so he with still make that argument. and he'l
and president obama needed good news. and remember the stimulus promise to keep unemployment below 8%, stimulus worked. okay. but i mean politically and psychologically the difference between 8.1 and 7.8 is significant. but i agree with david. i think to a greet degree, judy, the economy is already baked into people's political equation. a number, an insignificant number probably isn't going to change the political equation. >> what does it do though, david, to the romney sort of central...
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and once we get over that hump and that may not be until after the debates debates after that hump those people for obama in '08 who don't fully trust or believe in him anymore and wait to see if romney is viable, those people will all flip, the romney, those people will flip towards mitt romney and that is where they will win and also look at some of these demographics slices where the president has big leads, especially spanish. >> rose: women, hispanics. >> women, hispanics, young voters, they say it is great the president has leads with those groups but those leads are going to get smaller and the reason is because all of those groups are also affected by the economy, you know, those kids in 2008 who voted for barack obama, you know, they are all excited what has he cone for you lately? you are living at home in your parent's garage, hispanics who voted for the real estate, way ahead, the president is way ahead with romney with hispanics, the president didn't deliver immigration reform for you although you think he is better than that issue he didn't deliver for you and look at the f
and once we get over that hump and that may not be until after the debates debates after that hump those people for obama in '08 who don't fully trust or believe in him anymore and wait to see if romney is viable, those people will all flip, the romney, those people will flip towards mitt romney and that is where they will win and also look at some of these demographics slices where the president has big leads, especially spanish. >> rose: women, hispanics. >> women, hispanics,...
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i have seen him in debates and in massachusetts, he is a good well and obama is a very, very very good speaker. >> and he doesn't have clinton at his side. >> and he has had four years. four years. and this is where we are in the economy today. what do you think? >> that's because -- well, considering how obama -- well, the economy doing so badly, obama according to precedent should be about 10 points behind right now but the fact that he is not to, and neck and neck and only a point ahead indicates anything two >>> predictions. dim? >> the lame duck congress will avert the fiscal cliff only by kicking the can down the road. >> eleanor? >> both campaigns turning to debate prep, the white house bringing back anita dunn to oversee the pret. >> mort? >> the israelis will not attack iran until after the election. >> clarence? >> mitt romney will do surprisingly well in the first debate because expectations are so low. >> two parts of spain will break away two months from now and the
i have seen him in debates and in massachusetts, he is a good well and obama is a very, very very good speaker. >> and he doesn't have clinton at his side. >> and he has had four years. four years. and this is where we are in the economy today. what do you think? >> that's because -- well, considering how obama -- well, the economy doing so badly, obama according to precedent should be about 10 points behind right now but the fact that he is not to, and neck and neck and only...
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with president obama because he is a very good debater and did very well in the primaries. >> i loved the setting of the bar by the media. yes, indeed. >> rose: so? >> well, i think they are both very intelligent, very talented, very articulate individuals. i think the president is the president who has commanded the stage. he has the experience in the general election debates. he's an excellent, excellent debater. i think governor romney welcomes the opportunity to be able to present his vision on ideas and issues and problems of the country and post up directly against president obama. i think caring for people in situation. i think so it is a mind who loves to take a problem and analyze it and fix it that goes from small things around the house to big problems of the world and the country. and i think it's that combination of both of inner person plus the intellectual desire to just see problems and make situations better. >> rose: when he comes to the stage and when he leaves the stage on thursday night, what do you hope will have been accomplished here? >> well, i think a number
with president obama because he is a very good debater and did very well in the primaries. >> i loved the setting of the bar by the media. yes, indeed. >> rose: so? >> well, i think they are both very intelligent, very talented, very articulate individuals. i think the president is the president who has commanded the stage. he has the experience in the general election debates. he's an excellent, excellent debater. i think governor romney welcomes the opportunity to be able to...
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we like him anyway because we want someone on a debate stage who will take a swing at president obama. gwen: on the other hand, the others want to paint romney as kind of an out of touch elitist. how does he respond to that? >> he has not seemed to have figured out a way to do that they're sort of por stray -- portraying him as thirston howell iii. when people here bank accounts in the kaman islands. he described his own speaking fees, which were over $300,000 as not that much. he had a story to tell last night at the debate on his tax returns but just didn't quite get it out. gwen: he doesn't seem comfortable about talking about money. >> i think that's right. his biggest argument overall is that listen, everyone, you may not be totally with me but i'm the strongest person to take on barack obama. well, now, some of his other rivals are going after that and saying are you really the most electable? i think that is perhaps the most -- if he goes out of south carolina wounded a little bit, he's going to have to repair this electability argument because that is his biggest sort of star,
we like him anyway because we want someone on a debate stage who will take a swing at president obama. gwen: on the other hand, the others want to paint romney as kind of an out of touch elitist. how does he respond to that? >> he has not seemed to have figured out a way to do that they're sort of por stray -- portraying him as thirston howell iii. when people here bank accounts in the kaman islands. he described his own speaking fees, which were over $300,000 as not that much. he had a...
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there was disappointment with obama among democrats after the first debate. i think he has started to regain some of that because it is performances, but the first debate at a tremendous impact on the race. >> wherever obama goes, you hear him say, come out and vote, you have to. >> he relies on groups that have low turnout rates paid blacks, hispanics, people he needs and that catapulted him to the top in 2008. remember, there was a big turnout in 2008. those people lack the passion today and he needs to get them out. >> the pew research center and a harvard university poll indicates, it if they are accurate, that fewer young people are going to turn at this time than last time. >> i don't think you really need a survey to tell you that treat your own eyes, your own experience can tell you that. i don't know anybody who says that young people are going to vote more this year. >> one thing obama has is this data mining think, this state of the arctic about -- this state of the art data mining thing. >> a comment during a debate made by the indiana senate cand
there was disappointment with obama among democrats after the first debate. i think he has started to regain some of that because it is performances, but the first debate at a tremendous impact on the race. >> wherever obama goes, you hear him say, come out and vote, you have to. >> he relies on groups that have low turnout rates paid blacks, hispanics, people he needs and that catapulted him to the top in 2008. remember, there was a big turnout in 2008. those people lack the...
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it is sort of the same issue president obama had in that first debate. but i thought that one of the big misses for mitt romney we are not talking about now and that we would have been talking about if not for the libya moment was what i thought was a miss on the bush question, right? he gets the question that i think is this sort of lingering question out there with some swing voters, particularly say in the upper midwest, the ohio, iowa, portion of this -- of these battleground states and yet it was, hey, i am going to be tougher on china, i am going to be more free trade, he didn't seem to have a solid answer of what makes me different than bush and then the president in there clearly was ready with his talking points. i will tell yo tell you how he s different from bush, hits him on medicare and on immigration. so it was almost a reverse of here you have the president with a plan and he executed it tonight, mitt went in there thinking hey it is up to the president, it is almost seethe, ceding turf at different moments which i thought was ahead scratc
it is sort of the same issue president obama had in that first debate. but i thought that one of the big misses for mitt romney we are not talking about now and that we would have been talking about if not for the libya moment was what i thought was a miss on the bush question, right? he gets the question that i think is this sort of lingering question out there with some swing voters, particularly say in the upper midwest, the ohio, iowa, portion of this -- of these battleground states and yet...
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what happens between the close of the democratic convention and the first debate in october? what -- how do we character try that snerd. >> well one thing that happens on friday is the romney campaign gets to start spending this general election money. >> rose: have more money. >> one thing they haven't done at all is direct mail w spent a lot of time on. the have, talking about the tv ads, direct mail matters some and they have not done that and -- >> rose: can the super pacs do that? >> i can't recall super packs. >> they can do that but they don't do much of it. they, what they do, do is get out the vote. the koch brothers spent a fortune to get out out the vote. >> rose: and we will see what the ad are like. we have seen much more advertising that in the past but we will see the markers on general advertising and then all brace to see if the polls move, if either side gets a bigger bounce than the other, neither campaign expects that, they expect one bounce to cancel out the other but i wouldn't be surprised if one did better than the other and we will also see a lot of d
what happens between the close of the democratic convention and the first debate in october? what -- how do we character try that snerd. >> well one thing that happens on friday is the romney campaign gets to start spending this general election money. >> rose: have more money. >> one thing they haven't done at all is direct mail w spent a lot of time on. the have, talking about the tv ads, direct mail matters some and they have not done that and -- >> rose: can the...
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we're going to see barack obama make mistakes in the debate. he said to mitt romney -- the line he said to hillary clinton, you are likable enough. neither one is apt to make a huge gaffe. >> who is undecided? this is all about. >> tiny amounts of people. tiny amounts of precincts in states. in some ways, it might not be mitt romney's last chance that it is his last best chance to break through and show people that he cares about them, he cares about their problems but that has been an issue for him. he has advantages on some of the other issues. so much of these debates is about the body language, the social clues. do they look pleasant? did they look like someone you want to have in your living room for the next four years? that will be important. >> in terms of the immediate impact of this debate, will we know after the media has pored over all the tricks and turns? >> we will know what the consensus of the media is. there are these polls, they will have some polls as early as tomorrow. we over analyze everything. i suspect in the next 48 ho
we're going to see barack obama make mistakes in the debate. he said to mitt romney -- the line he said to hillary clinton, you are likable enough. neither one is apt to make a huge gaffe. >> who is undecided? this is all about. >> tiny amounts of people. tiny amounts of precincts in states. in some ways, it might not be mitt romney's last chance that it is his last best chance to break through and show people that he cares about them, he cares about their problems but that has been...
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tavis: is there any way that the debate tomorrow night between obama and ronnie could crawl a more stark contrast between the choices between biden and ryan? i have a hard time believing how either one of them make a lot more definitively clear. >> part of the reason for that is governor romney doesn't want it to be started. -- stark. whether you say he was evasive, untruthful, pivoting, or whatever you call it, he clearly made the move to the metal in one fell swoop. he did not gradually edged towards the center from having been out further in the extreme, he did not do it gradually. he did it in one big chunk, and i think he has been talking about bipartisanship. it works trying to get to the center, talking about bipartisanship and adopting a much softer tone. he will try to obscure the clarity of the choice. tavis: with the moderate romney show up? >> absolutely. a lot of things went right for the debate in denver. i think they also really feel that him going back to what they see as his moderate and pragmatic massachusetts' route was a winner for them with the voters. i think they w
tavis: is there any way that the debate tomorrow night between obama and ronnie could crawl a more stark contrast between the choices between biden and ryan? i have a hard time believing how either one of them make a lot more definitively clear. >> part of the reason for that is governor romney doesn't want it to be started. -- stark. whether you say he was evasive, untruthful, pivoting, or whatever you call it, he clearly made the move to the metal in one fell swoop. he did not gradually...
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. >> rich with images of martin luther king and other icons, obama may join them as african- americans debate how much good he has done in power. >> we will have full coverage from the democratic national convention later this week. and controversy from the sports world. the columbia and the as blade runner has apologized for the timing of his complaint against the men that beat him in the 200 meter final. it revealed he won the race a fairly, but he says the length of some runners on blades gives them an unfair advantage. it will compete twice more before the games are over. one of the worst wildfires in recent memory. thousands of visitors to the national forest forced to evacuate. the cost of firefighting is plunging the state further into the red. despite the california reputation as the home of high tech, it is a front-line of the battle against the blazes. >> daybreak in the mountains of eastern california. she is one of more than 20 mules husband is national forest facility. these animals have long been used to back of firefighters as they go in the battle of the firefighters of
. >> rich with images of martin luther king and other icons, obama may join them as african- americans debate how much good he has done in power. >> we will have full coverage from the democratic national convention later this week. and controversy from the sports world. the columbia and the as blade runner has apologized for the timing of his complaint against the men that beat him in the 200 meter final. it revealed he won the race a fairly, but he says the length of some runners...
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may president obama more truculent in the next debates, and he overcompensated for his miserable performance in the first debate trying to catch up. >> a parolee michael bloomberg did not care about the debates but he did care about -- apparently michael bloomberg did not care about the debates but he did care about sandy and he gave the president his endorsement. >> the reason he gave the endorsement was climate change, which he sees as an important issue and at least the president has taken note of it and that has not happened on the other side. >> bloomberg is a popular guy in the east, but in other quarters he is not. the angry white males -- the question is, are the angry white males going to come out and save romney? bloomberg does not help obama with that crowd. >> i disagree. i think mayor bloomberg is a big help with the very important constituency of gun control, a gay-rights people who want to limit the size of a soft drinks. an overlooked sector. >> what about angry white males in ohio? >> this has been the real problem of the romney campaign, that while the obama's reach to whit
may president obama more truculent in the next debates, and he overcompensated for his miserable performance in the first debate trying to catch up. >> a parolee michael bloomberg did not care about the debates but he did care about -- apparently michael bloomberg did not care about the debates but he did care about sandy and he gave the president his endorsement. >> the reason he gave the endorsement was climate change, which he sees as an important issue and at least the president...
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throughout the three major president debates, obama has driven the argument, you can't do it. first you have to tell us what the secret plan is. if it were desirable, you'd be disclosing it. so it's probably not so desirable. but secondly, you can't accomplish what you're proposing on the assumptions that you're offering without exploding the deficit or hurting the middle class. if on election day people ask, "does that really add up?" the vote is far more likely to be a vote for obama. >> kathleen hall jamieson, marty kaplan, let's continue this conversation online. thanks for being with me. >> thank you, bill. >> you're welcome. >> and now for another reality check -- a far cry from the humbug and rhetorical static afflicting our election campaigns. let's talk about something president obama and governor romney barely mentioned in their debates -- banking reform. it's four years since the economic meltdown knocked america and the world to our knees, four years since that massive taxpayer bailout. but if you listened to the candidates, the enormity and severity of this contin
throughout the three major president debates, obama has driven the argument, you can't do it. first you have to tell us what the secret plan is. if it were desirable, you'd be disclosing it. so it's probably not so desirable. but secondly, you can't accomplish what you're proposing on the assumptions that you're offering without exploding the deficit or hurting the middle class. if on election day people ask, "does that really add up?" the vote is far more likely to be a vote for...
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gallup has obama up by five points in their seven-day track, but since the debate they have obama up by just three points. >> reporter: or how about old friend ray fair, an economist we've been visiting every four years since the george h.w. bush administration. he's got an economic model. >> so right at this moment, its 49.5% of the two-party vote for obama. >> reporter: so the polls and models call it a toss-up. but curiously, the betting public tells a very different story. online betting prediction markets, like ireland's intrade, which takes bets from americans, and england's betfair, which doesnt, have made obama the strong favorite for months. the lone domestic and entirely legal betting haven, the iowa electronic markets at the university of iowa. ever frugal, we asked hari srinivasan, our man in the midwest-- at least last week-- to drop in. >> sreenivasan: this is the entire iowa electronic market? >> this is our server room right here. >> sreenivasan: so the entire prediction markets right here? >> in that little box. >> reporter: granted, a visual letdown but this is what
gallup has obama up by five points in their seven-day track, but since the debate they have obama up by just three points. >> reporter: or how about old friend ray fair, an economist we've been visiting every four years since the george h.w. bush administration. he's got an economic model. >> so right at this moment, its 49.5% of the two-party vote for obama. >> reporter: so the polls and models call it a toss-up. but curiously, the betting public tells a very different story....
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presidential campaign and the debate over alternative energy is one of the many issues the candidates are fighting over. president obama put billions of dollars of stimulus money into renewable power, but after some high-profile industry bankruptcies it's become the focus of republican attacks. so what are the facts? can solar power really fuel the future? we've gone through the world's biggest solar power plant in california to find out. >> in the desert of southern california, they're assembly solar power on a dramatic scale. each of these panels will power one home by reflecting the sun's energy and turning it into electricity. it's going to be the biggest thermal solar power plant in the world. these tens of thousands of mirrors are being placed so when it's operational they will be tilted and reflect the sun's rays and this huge boiler will turn steam into electricity. these plants will power 140,000 homes. it's big but a tiny fraction of america's electricity needs. solar power has now spread into the political landscape. >> obama's department of energy has handed out billions o
presidential campaign and the debate over alternative energy is one of the many issues the candidates are fighting over. president obama put billions of dollars of stimulus money into renewable power, but after some high-profile industry bankruptcies it's become the focus of republican attacks. so what are the facts? can solar power really fuel the future? we've gone through the world's biggest solar power plant in california to find out. >> in the desert of southern california, they're...
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president obama, because he's known as a skilled debater. he's won the presidency before. mitt romney lived and died by the debates during the republican primaries and he always looked like the stable guy. he's going to have to hit harder and with better airport in these debates. plus, he's been practicing a lot. i think the expectations might be a little high. gwen: it's funny you're talking about that. >> both are good debaters. i don't expect either to do a poor job. there's an interesting statistic in the "wall street journal" today. in iowa, democrats have requested 100,000 absentee ballots. republicans, 16,000. the former director of the iowa republican party is saying i'm getting nervous. girlfriend. we'll be watching all of it. thank you, everyone. we'll continue our conversation online on the "washington week" webcast extra, where we'll tell you how david letterman and kelly ripa also made muss this week in politics. next week, to the heartland, st. louis, missouri, for a live audience show. join us then and keep up with live developments with me on the pbs news h
president obama, because he's known as a skilled debater. he's won the presidency before. mitt romney lived and died by the debates during the republican primaries and he always looked like the stable guy. he's going to have to hit harder and with better airport in these debates. plus, he's been practicing a lot. i think the expectations might be a little high. gwen: it's funny you're talking about that. >> both are good debaters. i don't expect either to do a poor job. there's an...
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president obama in the second debate. >> gabby giffords who came back from a real tragedy and is now back and deserves all the commendation that you can muster up. >> that's a lovely tribute and choice. >> massachusetts campaign was looking sad and troubled there for a while. but she has stuck to it and came out the winner. >> republican governor scott walker. this has been gummed up already by buchanan. despite a bruising show down recall, plus organized labors national money war chest lined up against him, scott walker won handily. does he have a future? >> he does. and you copied mine pretty well. >> most original thinker? >> my magazine the american conservative, which an awful lot of people are looking at and commenting favorably on. something different than the consecutive interventionist. >> do you have a membership to that magazine? >> no, i don't get a dime for it. >> thanks for clearing that up. >> original thinkers misguided senate candidate todd akin in missouri, who says if a woman is legitimately raped the body shuts down and cannot conceive a pregnancy. >> fed chairman
president obama in the second debate. >> gabby giffords who came back from a real tragedy and is now back and deserves all the commendation that you can muster up. >> that's a lovely tribute and choice. >> massachusetts campaign was looking sad and troubled there for a while. but she has stuck to it and came out the winner. >> republican governor scott walker. this has been gummed up already by buchanan. despite a bruising show down recall, plus organized labors national...
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there are two more presidential debates. they will be yet another hoax unless someone puts the question to barack obama and mitt romney, why are we killing kids that don't need to die and then ask it over and again until they don't need to die and then ask it over and again until they have no choice but to go public. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> that's it for this week. on our next edition of "moyers and company" meet the adventure remember who has gone to the top of the earth to take the earth's temperature and some beautiful photographs. from the vanishing areas of north. we're talking about global warming. >> that landscape is gone. it may never be seen again in the history of civilization. climate changes are not imaginary, not theoretical, not based on computer models. it's right there in front of you. >> there is more at bill moyers.com. i'll see you there and i'll see moyers.com. i'll see you there and i'll see you here next time. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com de nrns don't wait a week. to get mor
there are two more presidential debates. they will be yet another hoax unless someone puts the question to barack obama and mitt romney, why are we killing kids that don't need to die and then ask it over and again until they don't need to die and then ask it over and again until they have no choice but to go public. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> that's it for this week. on our next edition of "moyers and company" meet the adventure remember who has gone to the...
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. >> rose: having seen the conversation with barack obama, having listened to the debate in the campaign, where are we in this campaign and what are we witnessing at this moment? >> charlie, right now we're in the second quarter, the beginning of the second quarter, i would say obama's ahead by a field goal, maybe a bit more. but there's a long way to play. there's a lot of talk about how negative it is right now, by historical standards it isn't that negative. what what really has occurred the last couple weeks is that mitt romney-- who had i think a little momentum about a month ago-- has been back on his heels. he is really not able to focus on the economy and the issues of obama stewardship because he's been so defensive about bain, about taxes, and about a host of other issues and they're going to have to turn that around. if you talk to the republicans they'll tell you obama spend a great deal of money, he's had an advertising advantage over the last couple weeks and the needle hasn't moved much. true but romney's negatives have climbed. >> rose: therefore it means the administrati
. >> rose: having seen the conversation with barack obama, having listened to the debate in the campaign, where are we in this campaign and what are we witnessing at this moment? >> charlie, right now we're in the second quarter, the beginning of the second quarter, i would say obama's ahead by a field goal, maybe a bit more. but there's a long way to play. there's a lot of talk about how negative it is right now, by historical standards it isn't that negative. what what really has...
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romney here say little advice: before you debate barack obama on foreign policy, you better finish the debate with yourself! [cheers and applause] president mitt romney -- president mitt romney, three very hyperlet call word -- hypothetical words that mystified our allies this summer. an overseas trip for him is what you call it when i trip all over your self-overseas. i wasn't a goodwill mission it was a blooper reel. but -- but a romney ryan foreign policy would be anything but funny. everything president of both parties for 60 years has worked for nuclear arms control but not mitt romney. republican secretary of states from kissinger to baker, powell to rice, president bush, 71 united states senators all supported president obama's new start treaty, but not mitt romney. he has even blurted out the preposterous notion that russia is the number one geopolitical foe. folks, sarah palin said she could see russia from alaska. mitt romney talks like he has only seen russia by watching "rocky iv." i tell you. -- so here is the choice -- here is the choice in 2012, mitt romney out of touch
romney here say little advice: before you debate barack obama on foreign policy, you better finish the debate with yourself! [cheers and applause] president mitt romney -- president mitt romney, three very hyperlet call word -- hypothetical words that mystified our allies this summer. an overseas trip for him is what you call it when i trip all over your self-overseas. i wasn't a goodwill mission it was a blooper reel. but -- but a romney ryan foreign policy would be anything but funny....
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i think the debate obama wants and that romney should want to engage in from his side is whether this new kind of capitalism where so much money is made in the financial sector is the kind of capitalism that builds up our country and that we have much more emphasis on finance, much less on manufacturing, and lord knows, much less on labor. and i think that that is the fight that underlies this. and i think we're going to get there eventually. >> brown: well, that's optimistic. >> see, one thing i do agree with ej on, if romney is going to be a personification of capitalism, he does have to say what kind of capitalism he's for. he does have to say too much resources have been going to finance. he does have to say some of these things these bankers are doing makes me sick. he has to distinguish that from the part that he has been part of which is the creative destruction part, which is does involve sometimes involves job losses but involves making companies more efficient so they thrive in the long run so he has to give a speech saying this is the capitalism i believe in or else he will
i think the debate obama wants and that romney should want to engage in from his side is whether this new kind of capitalism where so much money is made in the financial sector is the kind of capitalism that builds up our country and that we have much more emphasis on finance, much less on manufacturing, and lord knows, much less on labor. and i think that that is the fight that underlies this. and i think we're going to get there eventually. >> brown: well, that's optimistic. >>...
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it is a very different mood around the abou obama cane today than after the last debate. we have to see what the long-term impact is, but in terms of the mood, it is a far different atmosphere than it was after the first debate. >> woodruff: karen, would you add anything to that? what about the romney folks? >> i think what they wanted to do was build on the momentum they were getting out of that first debate. not to lose any of that energy. i think that governor romney just sort of was there to parry back every point. they disputed every point. the energy answer, where one was up, and up was up and down was down, and they were throwing out statistics so fast. i think both camps came away thinking their own supporters are energized and excited. but i don't know who's minds would be changed by last night's debate. >> woodruff: julie, what about this focus on women voters? what is it -- again, you're dealing with the obama campaign for the most part. what is it that they feel they need to say that they haven't been saying already to women's voters. >> you here from democrat
it is a very different mood around the abou obama cane today than after the last debate. we have to see what the long-term impact is, but in terms of the mood, it is a far different atmosphere than it was after the first debate. >> woodruff: karen, would you add anything to that? what about the romney folks? >> i think what they wanted to do was build on the momentum they were getting out of that first debate. not to lose any of that energy. i think that governor romney just sort of...
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the obama economic record. to go back to that question what would the romney people say. they will say what gets discussed here and on cable tv and in twitter and everything else is not the reality. that is what the chattering class is talking about. the reality is high gas prices, unemployment, four years above 8% unemployment, and that reality as long as governor romney seems like an acceptable alternative will guide what happens. >> the reality is that most people don't follow this as closely as we do until the fall campaign. and then come the debates which in my experience have been the single most important events of any given presidential campaign. the reagan example is a great example. but what happens in these debates, what's absolutely crucial is that the public makes this subliminal judgement about who they feel more comfortable having in their living room for the next four years. the presidency is the most int at that time-- intimate office we have, lives in our houses, lives in our homes. and you kn
the obama economic record. to go back to that question what would the romney people say. they will say what gets discussed here and on cable tv and in twitter and everything else is not the reality. that is what the chattering class is talking about. the reality is high gas prices, unemployment, four years above 8% unemployment, and that reality as long as governor romney seems like an acceptable alternative will guide what happens. >> the reality is that most people don't follow this as...